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John C. Winston Company	The publishing firm of John C. Winston Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1884. In 1959-1960 it merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and Rinehart and Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2009
John W. Luce and Company	John W. Luce and Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214.	2008
John West Folsom	The publishing firm of Draper and Folsom was founded in Boston in 1778 by Edward Draper and John West Folsom. The partnership ended in 1783 and the firm continued as John West Folsom until it closed in 1801. Folsom died in 1825. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 164.	2009
Kurt Wolff Verlag	Kurt Wolff Verlag was a publishing house founded by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig in 1913. In 1941 Wolff fled Germany for the USA, and in 1942 he became one of the founders of Pantheon Books in New York. See the FOB entry for Pantheon Books and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270.	2008
L. Willard	Levi Willard founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Troy, New York in 1837. The firm went out of existence around 1886. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 489.	2009
Lamson, Wolffe and Company	The publishing firm of Lamson, Wolffe and Company was founded in Boston in 1895 by E. R. Lamson and W. B. Wolffe. The firm went out of business in 1899. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 245.	2009
Longman	Thomas Longman founded his publishing house in 1724. The firm remained a family business until 1970, when it was merged with Penguin Books. By the time of the death of the last family chairman, Mark Longman, in 1972, the firm was known as Pearson Longman. It remains part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known as Longman Addison Wesley, but it has now reverted to Longman. See www.pearson.com and www.longman.co.uk.	2007
M. W. Dodd	The publishing firm of Taylor and Dodd was founded by John S. Taylor and Moses Woodruff Dodd in New York in 1839. In 1840 Dodd bought out Taylor and renamed the firm M. W. Dodd. In 1870 the management of the firm was taken over by Dodd's nephew Edward S. Mead and in 1876 the firm was renamed Dodd, Mead and Company. This information is drawn from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company.	2008
M. Witmark & Sons	The music publishing firm of M. Witmark & Sons was established in New York City in 1885. In 1928 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Macfarlane Walter & Ross	Macfarlane Walter & Ross was a non-fiction publishing firm based in Toronto. In 2000 the firm was acquired by McClelland & Stewart. See www.mcclelland.com.	2008

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